Quotes About Response

The mark of success, or failure, in handling victory is what happens the next time out.

contingencies

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Victor Frankl's insight: Between stimulus and response there is a space.In that space is our power to choose our response.In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Later, when Trump brought up the second speech to him, the staff secretary said, "I thought the second speech was the only good one of the three." "I don't want to talk to you," Trump responded. "Get away from me.

Mattis had a general operating philosophy which he articulated many times over the years: "You don't always control your circumstances, but you can control your response.

Life is 10 per cent what happens to you and 90 per cent how you respond to it.

Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.

our work's reactive: In the

When a man hears himself misrepresented, it provokes him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But when the misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.

None of the sheep ever wanted a sheepdog around until one of them spotted a wolf. By then, it was often too late.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to it.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react.

You can't always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it.

A blush rose to my face. I fixed my eyes on the Pavement. The Other was so neat, so elegant in his suit and his shining shoes. I, on the other hand, was not neat. My clothes were ragged and faded, rotten with the Sea Water I fished in. I hated drawing his attention to this contrast between us, but nevertheless he had asked me and so I must answer. I said, 'What changed was that I used to have shoes. Now I have none.

You can see why doubting one's own craziness is considered a good sign: It's a sort of flailing response by the second interpreter. What's happening? the second interpreter is saying. He tells me it's a tiger but I'm not convinced; maybe there's something wrong with me. Enough doubt is in there to give "reality" a toehold.

Sometimes incidents and events in our lives bring out the best in us, or the worst. Sometimes we recover from these events and sometimes we don't - but they always impact us. At other times how we act and react, or deal with a particular situation, reveals our true nature and tells us who we really are.

Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response. (Sylvia Boorstein, from You Don't Look Buddhist)

Anger is often a big problem for people who grew up in families where the overt expression of anger was an everyday occurrence. They have too much opportunity to practice anger and not enough sense of the other possibilities. Rage becomes, for them, the habitual response of the mind to unpleasant situations. ... When people begin to see that anger, like any other mind energy, is just a transient phenomenon and therefore workable, they are very relieved [p. 83].

I can let you in, Eva. I'm trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can't stand feeling like any moment I'm going to do or say something wrong and you're going to bolt.

Why? Why would you do that?" You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.

But thank you." "All right. Let me know

These conversations I had in my mind usually repeated the beginnings of conversations I'd really had with Buddy, only they finished with me answering him back quite sharply, instead of just sitting around and saying, I guess so.

By achieving consciousness, we can live from who we are today rather than who we were yesterday. In this way, we can respond appropriately to situations, tapping the full range and potential of our skills and talents, rather than inappropriately reacting to events, driven by the fears and insecurities of the past.